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...massive. The country sits atop about 115 billion barrels of oil reserves - the fourth largest in the world after Saudi Arabia, Canada and Iran - and about 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. What is more, much of the oil is relatively easy to reach and cheap to pipe out. There is a catch, however: the infrastructure is in dire shape. Even before this war, rigs and wells had lain rotting for years, since the crippling war with Iran in the 1980s sapped the economy and international sanctions in the 1990s left Iraq in bad need of spare parts...
...winter/Christmas vacation for everyone, Christmas movies and television shows that everyone is exposed to, and huge sales in stores throughout the nation that are advertised to (you guessed it!) everyone. So rather than just an expression of religious beliefs, Christmas has become a distinctly American tradition. Obviously then, the pipe dream of continued cultural purity surrounding Christmas is one that many would do well to abandon...
...connected tank the water molecules can't resist sticking to the salt, turning it into a slurry. As water evaporates, it gives up energy, which is then released inside the salt tank. The result of the energy transfer: the water becomes colder as the salt heats up. Pipe water through the slurry into radiators, and the system can heat the home; circulating the cold water will cool...
It’s easy to dismiss this as a pipe-dream, but we don’t. We believe a new UC is possible, and we believe that two candidates are uniquely qualified to deliver: Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Adam Goldenberg...
...describes one of the clubs the band played at in their early years as being a “filthy, sweltering, fetid, claustrophobic little firetrap of a club. The walls and ceiling sweated absolute humidity; there was no exit aside from the main entrance…an ersatz ventilation pipe had been installed as a concession to the public health department.” How Spitz found out about a 40-year-old ersatz ventilation pipe that probably is no longer in existence is far beyond our understanding, but his skill for sending readers back in time with his description...